How Do I Know If I’m Really Saved?

By John Ortberg

What Does It Mean to Be Saved?
Some people think that salvation is merely about meeting the minimal entrance requirements needed to get into heaven when they die. But that’s not how Jesus talked about it. Rightly understood, salvation is an invitation to know God and to experience His presence, favor, and power starting right here on earth. In How Do I Know if I’m Really Saved, bestselling author John Ortberg:

• Dispels the myth that eternal life is something we can only hope to experience after we die,
• Recaptures the New Testament definition of salvation, eternal life, and the Good News of the Gospel, and
• Explains what it really means to be a disciple.

So what does it mean to be saved? Let’s find out!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Sep 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781496432537

John Ortberg

John Ortberg es el pastor principal de la Iglesia Presbiteriana de Menlo Park, en Menlo Park, California, con dependencias en Menlo Park, Mountain View y San Mateo. Ha escrito numerosas obras que han tenido una gran aceptación, como La fe y la duda; El ser que quiero ser; Un amor más allá de la razón; Cuando el juego termina, todo regresa a la caja; La misión fantasma; Dios está más cerca de lo que crees; Todos somos normales hasta que nos conocen; La vida que siempre has querido; Si quieres caminar sobre las aguas, tienes que salir de la barca; Vivamos divinamente la vida, y el plan de estudios multimedia Old Testament Challenge (con la colaboración de Kevin Harney). John y su esposa Nancy tienen tres hijos.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ortberg, John, author.

Title: How do I know if I’m really saved? / John Ortberg.

Description: Carol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018012010 | ISBN 9781496432513 (sc)

Subjects: LCSH: Assurance (Theology) | Salvation—Christianity.

Classification: LCC BT785.O78 2018 | DDC 234—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018012010

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Contents

How Do I Know if I’m Really Saved?

Glossary of Frequently Misunderstood Terms

Key Verses about Salvation

About the Author

HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M REALLY SAVED?

We must, in fact, do nothing less than engage in a radical rethinking of the Christian conception of salvation.

DALLAS WILLARD

What does it mean to be saved?

Let’s face it: the world is a mess.

Hunger and poverty haven’t gone away. Powerful celebrities assault women. The climate gets warmer. Marriages break up. Religion divides people. Politics can’t get any uglier.

There is no question about it. Our world needs saving.

But it’s not just the world. Humanity needs saving too. I need to be saved. Maybe so do you.

One thing is sure: if salvation is possible, it is supremely worth knowing about.

What does it mean to be saved?

Ours is a world where everything is at risk, and what we treasure, we long to save. We want to save rain forests and whales and Word documents. We want to save photos and letters and mementos from the important people and events in our lives. Doctors want to save limbs and lives (though mere human beings can never really save a life, only postpone its death).

We have savings accounts because we value money. We mark daylight saving time on the calendar because we value hours and minutes and seconds. Politicians promise to save jobs, or culture, or a way of life—or even to save us from war.

Even in our games, we seek salvation. Relief pitchers save a win. Goalies who stop the other team from scoring record a save.

Movies like Saving Private Ryan remind us that the saving of a human life is a drama like no other, and in that particular story, the sacrifice of one life for another touches us in a way no other story can.

But what does it mean to be saved?

We long for salvation. And yet it

Reviews for How Do I Know If I’m Really Saved?

[Earl Tate · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very good read. Great examples that make you say, "Yes," I get it!